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Although the recent Shuswap Road Forest Fire near Kamloops caused a great deal of damage, a family of eagles was saved.
The 500-acre fire did not destroy the tree on which the eagles had built their nest and raised several babies.
The tree is tall and alone now, after the firefighter's efforts throughout the weekend.
According to BC Wildfire, the eaglets were seen trying to learn to fly Saturday, after the fire around their area was extinguished.
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A Surrey woman says she wants to help educate the public about racism after a staff member of her townhouse complex has asked for her piece family identity when using the pool
Guerda Henry, who is black, says she believes that the incident in her complex is an episode of racial profiling against her family, adding that it was not the first time that she was there.
She says she's devastated. They then interviewed a 12-year-old family friend about people jumping over the fence to enter the pool.
Henry says that when she moved from the Bahamas to Surrey five years ago, she knew "the waters (she) would swim" as a visible minority. She says that she was not surprised by the actions of the staff member, but that she was "incredibly disappointed" by Thursday's incident.
She would like to receive a formal and written apology from the Strata badociation, which manages the complex.
Neither the Brookland Strata Association nor their management company, Leonis Management, could be consulted immediately.
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Wildfire Service teams in British Columbia are currently fighting a fire of about 10 hectares. Village of Cedarvale, BC They say no structure is currently threatened, although a strong smoke is visible along Highway 16.
Cedarvale-Kitwanga Secondary Road along the north side of the river is affected.
The fire department does not know the cause at this time and continues to investigate.
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A climber was flown to hospital after breaking his leg during a fall on Mt. Ogilvie, near Hope, in British Columbia.
Capt. Zlatko Neral of the Joint Rescue Coordination Center reported that the establishment had received a request for badistance around 22.30. Saturday:
Neral says that the 26-year-old man was alone in the mountain ravine and proved hard to reach for ground search and rescue teams.
But he says that the man had a flare boom – that rescuers could see, and he was also able to communicate via a cell phone.
Rescuers aboard a Cormorant helicopter arrived around 1:30 am Sunday and managed to extract the man in half an hour.
at the Abbotsford Hospital
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The British Columbia Ministry of the Environment released a special air quality declaration for the City of Kamloops and surrounding communities while thermometers continue to increase
. According to the Ministry of the Environment, the area on the north side of the Thompson River could be affected by smoke from forest fires after the fire that declared Thursday afternoon on the side northeast of Kamloops, approximately 350 kilometers northeast of Vancouver. with pre-existing health problems, infants, the elderly and anyone particularly sensitive to smoke exposure could be affected.
More than 100 firefighters were working on the Sunday fire, including two helicopters and four calls for water. Jody Lucius of BC Wildfire Service said on Saturday that teams had limited the growth of wildfires by installing firebreaks and setting up a 30-meter perimeter by controlled burning of potential fuel for the fire.
Forest fires are estimated at 545 hectares, an increase of nearly 45 hectares compared to yesterday's measures, and researchers continue to determine the specific cause of the fire.
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A flotilla of demonstrators gathered on Saturday in kayaks and canoes in Burrard Inlet, near Kinder Morgan's Westridge Marine Terminal.
Expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline will triple the amount of bitumen transferred from Edmonton to Burnaby to 900,000 barrels per day.
More than 200 protesters have been arrested at Trans Mountain facilities in British Columbia since mid-March.
– with CTV records Vancouver
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An Aboriginal political activist was briefly detained on Saturday following a demonstration in North Thompson Provincial Park, BC, on Saturday
Kanahus Manuel Tiny House Warriors campaign group. The group members belong to the Secwepemc First Nation, which issued a statement Saturday afternoon calling Manuel's arrest a "declaration of war".
In the press release issued by the Secwepemc Women's Warrior Society, Manuel is considered a political prisoner of the "White Constables of the RCMP and the Guards of the State Park of Canada" who they believe , have the intention to force the Tiny House Warriors lands that Secwepemc consider as ancestral territories. The declaration adds that the territories have never been badigned to a Canadian government.
Dawn Roberts with BC The RCMP stated that members traveled to North Thompson Provincial Park to meet with protesters and discuss the eviction notice. She said that the liaison team continued to have conversations with the protesters after the arrest, and that the other protesters started packing the tiny houses that they had built
" These discussions were extremely positive, very respectful In a telephone interview,
Snutetkwe Manuel says that his sister was accused of mischief after the group refused to leave the park, although Roberts did not confirm that charges were laid.
custody late Saturday afternoon on a series of conditions and a promise to appear in court at a later date.Additional members of the protest were informed that they could leave the park by their own means or be themselves arrested.
Manuel said that the RCMP and BC Parks service did not have jurisdiction in the park. People are dead It's small pox here, "she said.
Manuel said that there were about six other protesters with her sister when she was arrested, including two village elders. Subsequently, she recorded and posted on her Facebook page a video of a conversation with two RCMP officers who prevented her from entering the camp, which she did. said to help his mother pack her bags
. The tattoo ceremony took place from July 6th to 9th and was turned into a blockade of Trans Mountain before July 11th.
Roberts stated that she was not sure exactly why the eviction order had been filed by BC Parks.
Kanahus Manuel responded earlier this week, saying that his people had been inconvenienced by colonialism for more than 150 years
"We have been displaced from our lands.") Aboriginal peoples can and exclusively use their land to maintain our culture, our language and our means, "said Manuel in an interview.
In a post on Facebook group Tiny House Warriors Wednesday, According to Mr. Manuel, the Trudeau government left the group "other choice" than to recover its hereditary lands by occupying the territory that crosses the Trans Mountain Pipeline
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Victoria Police urges the public not to put their hands in places where they did not check after a man was stung by a syringe in a Friday hollow fence post.
According to the Victoria Police Service, the victim, whose name was not disclosed, may have acted distractedly when he placed his hand in the hollow post.
Osoko says that the syringe was based on other materials. says that they are now part of their investigation, inside the station near the intersection of Yates and Douglas streets.
In January, a child was stung with a syringe at a McDonald's restaurant not far from the victim on Friday. Osoko says that in this case, the police believe that the syringe was properly removed after an emergency injection of insulin.
He says it's the fourth or fifth related incident The Victoria Police has been busy for several months, but she could not tell if the investigators believed that a particular offender was involved or a series of intentional stings.
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Waves crushing on rocks Ucluelet in January
The seismic activity in recent months has shifted the south of Vancouver Island a little further, according to an expert on earthquakes
estimates John Cbadidy, seismologist of Natural Resources Canada. Cbadidy says the move was caused by thousands of small tremors that began to occur in mid-May, and he said that moving the island in just a few weeks is a "remarkable" phenomenon.
He added the seismic activity recorded in mid-June, noting that there had been more than 10,000 shocks since that time.
On Friday, Cbadidy wrote in a Tweet that Vancouver Island was "without tremors" for the first time in weeks. .
– with CTV records Vancouver Island
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A forest fire burns near Kamloops Saturday morning
A heat wave and heavy winds in the southern half of British Columbia have helped ignite 11 new forest fires in the province 24 hours
. Claire Allen, of BC Wildfire Service, said six of these fires were man-made, one by lightning and the other four still under investigation
. There is no rain or cooler temperatures in the long-term forecasts.
"We currently have about 60 fires throughout the province," said Allen. is at the heart of the wildfire season, which generally extends from April 1 to late September or early October
Since Thursday, teams are fighting a 500-hectare fire near Kamloops . Jody Lucius with the BC Wildfire Service in Kamloops said that they have 89 crew members, four heavy machinery and four helicopters actively fighting the fire.
"We have not seen any substantial growth, which is a good sign, and the crews continue to turn off the hotspots Lucius says the crews are working to strengthen the firewall and maintain the existing fire away from more fuel by burning in a controlled manner.
Vacationers heading to Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and the Shuswap Lakes area should be aware of the danger of forest fires, as well as the Potential smokers throughout the area, says the Forest Fire Service.
Allen says anyone camping or using campfires or cooking should be extremely cautious.
